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I kissed a buoy, and I liked it. — Mike Turner
"You still have some room to come down." — Will Anderson "Hello 911? We have an accident with airbag deployment at the windward mark!" — Mark Jordan "When Cheryl decided to take up sailing after doing barrelracing in Texas for 20 years, her crew was surprised to realize some old habits are hard to break." — Lisa Apostolo "I thought green meant go!" — David Henry "Seal: 'Screw the jib, you woke me up!'" — Steve Allen "Seal: 'You're blocking my sun.'" — Sharon Stagg "Let's play a little game called just the tip." — Kristen Hura "Just a little more to port . . . ahhh, that's the spot." Adam Tischler ("What? I'm scratching an itch." — Dana Dupar) "That mark is gonna leave an us!" — Latitude 38 Magazine
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o striking one another onboard, but every man's quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol, thus: The Quartermaster of the ship, when the parties will not come to any reconciliation, companies them to shore with what assistance he thinks proper, and turns the disputants back to back, at so many paces distant. At word of command, they turn and fire immediately (or else the piece is knocked out of their hands). If both miss, they come to their cutlasses and then he declared victor who draws the first blood." — Pirate Articles (Number VIII) of Captain Roberts, as quoted by Breverton's Nautical Curiosites: A Book of the Sea, by Terry Breverton.